"Vi har ett förhållande."
Translation:We have a relationship.
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affärsrelation, for instance, so a very literal translation.
It's not that you can't use förhållande for non-romantic relationships, but the sentence Vi har ett förhållande is something I can't imagine ever saying in a different setting.
You would use ”have” as in this example. You could also say ”vi är ihop/tillsammans” (we are together).
Is there a difference in usage between tillsammans and ihop? One more common than the other?
What word would you use when talking about something being in relation to something? I assume förhållande can't be used here, right?
It honestly sounds pretty good to me. Slight merge of the r and the h, but nothing that needs to be corrected, really. Which is good, because we don't get to affect the recordings. :)
It's especially garbled in the slow version. Once I knew what she was saying, I could hear "förhållande" at the ordinary speed, but she almost doesn't say the first "ör" at the slow speed.
I assume hållande comes from hålla, and it's neutral. Do all substantive ending with "ande" are neutral? That would help a lot with remembering genders.
Not all, for example en ordförande (chairperson). However, I think the en-ande-words are only things denoting living people and that things are usually ett. If someone can think of a counterexample please tell me.
Terribly late reply, but maybe it helps a little to lookat it as a "beholdship"? :)
hålla means to hold, and förhålla [sig till] means to hold in relation to something. So förhållande is the noun from that verb. But it's not very intuitive.
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Hi :) Could you please give examples for "förhålla" ? I'm not sure I understand the meaning of it or how it works. (Actually, I think i understand better the general meaning of it in swedish by the use of "sig till" than your english explanation xD this is weird) Tack! Och gott nytt år till dig! ^^
Sure: Hur förhåller sig statsministern till den nya lagen?
Literally: "How does the prime minister relate himself/herself to the new law?"
Gott nytt år! :)
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Ooooh!!! (låt mig försöka på svenska... ^^) Okej, det är mer klart! Det förstår jag perfekt nu! Tack så mycket! =D
Do they need something to have gone through? It's just a perfectly normal and neutral sentence to me.
That's certainly the most natural way. You could use familjerelation or similar if needed, though.
Your parents are "far mor" and their parents "far far far mor" and "mor mor mor far"! Ha ha. Think of this with the English words "far" and "more" and this sentence means far more than you would think at first.
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I am curious about ETT and EN. Is there a deciding factor for these words which receive gender based attribution? I know it comes up in other languages and it is curious but I am wondering if there are rules or orders to Swedish.
What would be the plural of förhållande ? For instance how would you say "I only have bad relationships" ?
is it a ar plural or er ?
